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Ford's most important stop was with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev at an isolated compound of wooden and concrete dachas amid oak, birch and pine trees about 15 miles north of Vladivostok, home port for the Soviet Pacific fleet. Soon after reaching the camp by special train from the military airfield where Air Force One had landed, Ford and Brezhnev sat down in a conference room overlooking Amur Bay for talks that lasted all afternoon, into the evening and part of the next morning...
Cautious Optimism. Their chief task was to get the process of détente moving again after almost a year's delay. The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. failed to reach agreement at the Moscow summit last summer, in part because Brezhnev was apparently stalling until the Watergate crisis was resolved, in part because each side feared that the other was demanding permanent nuclear superiority. After visiting Moscow in October, Kissinger said that he was cautiously optimistic that a permanent SALT accord can be signed when Brezhnev visits Washington next summer. To that end, Ford and Brezhnev spent several hours...
That night Park gave a state dinner for Ford at the Capitol Building, a silver chopsticks affair that was attended by about 100 South Korean dignitaries. Next morning Ford flew to Vladivostok for his visit with Brezhnev, followed by the 16-hour flight back to Washington and the nation's harsh domestic realities...
...Diplomacy. Moreover, TIME learned last week from a ranking Soviet diplomat in Damascus that a letter had recently been sent by Leonid Brezhnev to Assad asking the Syrian leader to remain calm. Brezhnev wrote that the Soviets would "make every possible effort" to have the Geneva Conference reconvene as soon as possible but probably not before the Soviet leader's visit to Syria in January. In exchange for such an assurance, the Soviet diplomat added, the Syrians were "very likely" to renew the U.N. mandate before it expires Nov. 30. To do otherwise, as the Syrians must know, would...
...most, they hope to reach agreement before Ford leaves for home on Sunday, on the general principles that will guide U.S. and Soviet negotiators toward an arms agreement that can perhaps be signed during Brezhnev's visit to Washington this summer. Even without that, says a presidential adviser, "it's a chance to start a relationship now so that by next summer we'll be further along in picking up from where Nixon and Brezhnev left...